Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging

Evaporitic rocksalt formations are polymineralic, structurally heterogeneous, and the minerals display fabrics crystallographic and shape preferred orientations. Both contribute to seismic velocity anisotropy to an unknown extend. A workflow including a new grain boundary intercept quantification me...

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Main Author: Heeb, Johanna
Format: Thesis
Published: Curtin University 2021
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89361
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description Evaporitic rocksalt formations are polymineralic, structurally heterogeneous, and the minerals display fabrics crystallographic and shape preferred orientations. Both contribute to seismic velocity anisotropy to an unknown extend. A workflow including a new grain boundary intercept quantification method is presented and tested on numerical simulation with different phase content and strain geometry. Acoustic wave velocity of natural anhydrite samples was measured. Hydration of anhydrite was achieved for the first time under stress in triaxial experiments.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-893612024-11-12T02:08:38Z Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging Heeb, Johanna Evaporitic rocksalt formations are polymineralic, structurally heterogeneous, and the minerals display fabrics crystallographic and shape preferred orientations. Both contribute to seismic velocity anisotropy to an unknown extend. A workflow including a new grain boundary intercept quantification method is presented and tested on numerical simulation with different phase content and strain geometry. Acoustic wave velocity of natural anhydrite samples was measured. Hydration of anhydrite was achieved for the first time under stress in triaxial experiments. 2021 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89361 Curtin University fulltext
spellingShingle Heeb, Johanna
Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging
title Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging
title_full Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging
title_fullStr Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging
title_full_unstemmed Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging
title_short Listening Through Rock Salt: Quantifying Petrofabrics and Seismic Velocity Anisotropy of Evaporites to Improve Seismic Imaging
title_sort listening through rock salt: quantifying petrofabrics and seismic velocity anisotropy of evaporites to improve seismic imaging
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/89361